Released 15 September 1986 Release date 15 September 1986 | Artist Love and Rockets Label Big Time Records | |
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Recorded Woodbine Street Studios,
in the town of Leamington Spa,
in Warwickshire county,
England Length 40:08 (original LP)
70:18 (2001 reissue) Producer John A. Rivers, Love and Rockets Express
(1986) Earth, Sun, Moon
(1987) Genres Alternative rock, Gothic rock, Psychedelic rock, Neo-psychedelia Similar Love and Rockets albums, Gothic rock albums | ||
Love and rockets a 1 could be sunshine 1986
Express is the second studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets. It was released on 15 September 1986 on Beggars Banquet Records. An even greater departure from the band members' previous work as Bauhaus, the album's fusion of underground rock with pop stylings can be seen as an early example of alternative rock music, a genre that reached mainstream popularity in the early 1990s.
Contents
- Love and rockets a 1 could be sunshine 1986
- Love and rockets 01 angels and devils express
- Reception
- Release history
- Track listings
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
"Kundalini Express" was featured in the 1986 Italian horror film Demons 2 and appeared on an episode of the T.V. show Miami Vice.
Love and rockets 01 angels and devils express
Reception
In their retrospective review, AllMusic gave the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, writing, "rich in sonic detail, the neo-psychedelic Express offers a listening experience like no other album – guitars spiral to dizzying heights from beds of sound, arrangements swirl, songs change and mutate."
Release history
In 2001, the album was remastered and expanded to include two single remixes and several contemporaneous B-sides, including a cover of Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam". Two short experimental pieces that had been found on the studio tape masters labelled as "B Side #1" and "B Side #2" were also added. "Ball of Confusion" was released before Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, but since the USA mix could not be fit on the reissue of that album, it was appended to the Express reissue.
Track listings
All tracks written by Love and Rockets, except "Ball of Confusion", written by Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield.
Personnel
Songs
1Angels and Devils6:09
2It Could Be Sunshine4:59
3Kundalini Express5:48